Paint Ball Arraying Device

ABSTRACT

A paint ball arraying device, especially used in a paint-ball gun to feed in spherical paint balls, keeps the paint balls intact and feeds the paint balls in a bore successfully. The arraying device utilizes a flexible loop-shape advancing belt, which is formed with an upright advancing side perpendicular to the bore after being assembled, and is spaced equally with multiple toggle rods, with a receiving slot being defined between every two toggle rods. By the upright advancing side, a space for feeding the external paint balls can be extended to load the paint balls in a large quantity. Furthermore, using the receiving slot, the paint ball contained can be maintained intact independently; the advancing side is upright and perpendicular to the bore that advancing force will not be divided into a component of force explicitly, thus, the paint balls can be successfully fed into the bore.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

a) Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a paint ball arraying device, and moreparticularly to an arraying device which is used in a paint-ball gun tofeed in spherical paint balls, such that the paint balls can be keptintact and fed in successfully.

b) Description of the Prior Art

A paint ball is a consumed material of shooting in a realistic sparringwar game. The paint ball is safe and can clearly mark a position of hitafter hitting on a target. However, in order to avoid a danger of impactwhen the paint ball is hit on a human skin, the paint ball used by apaint-ball gun is a soft shell including colored powder to form aspherical ball that is easily deformed plastically by external force. Asthe paint ball is soft and easily deformed, a firing speed is unable tobe accelerated due to an inherent limitation that the paint balls willbe deformed by squeezing upon being loaded in a row from front to rearfor a continuous firing operation. In an early time, to avoid the paintball to be deformed by squeezing, a funnel is used that the paint ballsare dropped into a bore one by one from top of the gun due to gravity.As the funnel is set up above the gun, a sight of aiming will beaffected, beauty of the gun will be spoiled significantly, and a senseof reality will be lost. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 1, an advancingdesign is able to feed in the paint balls while yielding a loadingmechanism to the sight of aiming. The advancing design includes a box 5,interior of which is pivoted with a circular toggle wheel 52. Togglepieces 521 are spaced equally on the toggle wheel 52 in a radialdirection, and a drop entrance 51 is located on the box 5. After thepaint balls 10 have been dropped into the box 5 from the drop entrance51, the paint balls 10 are pushed toward an outlet 55 by a push-cutfunction of the toggle pieces 521. The outlet 55 is connected to a guidepassage 50 inside the box 5, and the guide passage 50 is upright towarda bore of a gun (not shown in the drawing), allowing the paint balls 10to be fed into the bore along a straight line. The guide passage 50 isprovided with a length of L within which pluralities of paint balls 10are pushed in an array. As a diameter of the paint ball 10 is smallerthan that of the guide passage 50, a significant tolerance will beformed, allowing an outer circumference of the paint ball 10 to losesupport that the paint ball 10 cannot keep forwarding in a center lineof the guide passage 50, and a center line along the front and rearpaint balls 10 to be off-set. Thus, central advancing force in an idealcondition will be deflected, and a component of force produced bypushing in a deflective direction will compress the paint ball 10 todeform and clog. In addition, the drop entrance 51 of the box 5 onlyprovides a single paint ball 10 to drop into; therefore, when the togglepieces 521 are toggled with respect to one paint ball 10, an idle periodwill be formed if a drop speed of the paint ball 10 is not able tocorrespond with the operation of the toggle pieces 521, which allows theprevious paint balls 10 that have entered into the guide passage 50 tolose subsequent advancing force that it is not able to feed the paintballs 10 into the bore successfully or that only a half of the paintball 10 will enter into the bore, with the paint ball 10 being rupturedor jammed by a feeding operation of an action.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a paint ballarraying device which is used in a paint-ball gun to feed in sphericalpaint balls, such that the paint balls can be kept intact and fed insuccessfully. The paint ball arraying device primarily utilizes aflexible loop-shape advancing belt to form an upright advancing sidewhich is perpendicular to a bore, and a series of holding slots spacedin the belt, to keep the paint balls intact and not to be affected by acomponent of force, thereby allowing the paint balls to be successfullyfed into the bore intact, while advancing and feeding the paint balls.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a paint ballarraying device, wherein the advancing belt is enclosed by a housingwhich is provided with an outlet, and the outlet faces directly toward avertical line of the bore.

A third object of the present invention is to provide a paint ballarraying device, wherein the loop-shape advancing belt is supported anddriven by at least two wheels, and is formed with the upright advancingside having a length equal to a pitch between the two wheels.

A fourth object of the present invention is to provide a paint ballarraying device, wherein the wheels that drive the advancing belt arelinked synchronously by a firing operation of a gun, allowing a linearactuation distance of the advancing belt to be equally divided by aninterval of the firing operation.

A fifth object of the present invention is to provide a paint ballarraying device, wherein an outlet of a housing directly faces toward acenter of the bore, allowing the paint balls to be fed in at multipleorientations within 90 degrees below a horizontal line of a verticalplane of the bore, so as to facilitate designing loading angles of thegun.

To enable a further understanding of the said objectives and thetechnological methods of the invention herein, the brief description ofthe drawings below is followed by the detailed description of thepreferred embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a conventional paint-ball advancingdevice.

FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of an assembly structure of the presentinvention.

FIG. 2A shows a constitutional diagram of an outlet of the presentinvention.

FIG. 3 shows an exploded view of components of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows a front perspective view of an implementation of thepresent invention.

FIG. 5 shows a schematic view of the present invention combining with aloading cartridge.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 2A, a paint ball arraying device of thepresent invention comprises a rectangular housing 1, interior of whichis formed with a movement slot 13 in a circular cross section and aloop-shape, with the movement slot 13 being provided with a diameterthat is a little larger than that of the paint ball used. Exterior ofthe housing 1, with respect to the movement slot 13, is provided with aninlet 11 and an outlet 12 for the paint balls 10 to access, a crosssection of the inlet 11 is in a circular shape and a center of the inlet11 directly faces toward a center line 130 of the movement slot 13.

A linear position of the center line 130 of the movement slot 13 isprovided with a flexible loop-shape advancing belt 3 which is basicallya belt, with an outward surface being provided with a plurality oftoggle rods 31 that are spaced equally, and a receiving slot 30 beingprovided between every two toggle rods 31.

The advancing belt 3 is supported by at least two wheels 2 which arepivoted at the housing 1. After being supported by the aforementionedwheels 2, an outer circumference of the advancing belt 3 is relativelylocated at the movement slot 13 of the housing 1, wherein at least onewheel 2 is an active wheel which can be linked outward to a power sourceto drive the advancing belt 3 to operate counterclockwise, as shown inFIG. 2. In addition, at least one side of the advancing belt 3 is formedwith an upright advancing side 33, a length of the advancing side 33 isequivalent to a pitch between the two wheels 2, and a running line 300of the advancing belt 3 is preferably overlapped with, or at leastparallel, to the center line 130 of the aforementioned movement slot 13.

A cross section of the outlet 12 of the housing 1 is also in a circularshape; a center line of the outlet 12 is overlapped with the center line130 of the movement slot 13 or the running line 300 of the advancingbelt 3 and is linked extendedly. In addition, the cross section of theoutlet 12 is perpendicular to the advancing side 33, and a correctionsection 120, which is provided with a same cross sectional area andshape, is formed between the outlet 12 and the advancing side 33, tocorrect at least one paint ball 10, allowing the paint ball 10 todisplace linearly before exiting the outlet 12. A parallel positionwhere an inner circumference of the correction section 120 yields to athickness of the toggle rod 31 of the advancing belt 3 is formed with anotch 121, two sides of which are formed as sliding sides 122; whereas,the paint ball 10 at the correction section 120 is guided by the slidingsides 122 to be pushed out linearly toward the outlet 12.

Referring to FIG. 3, the housing 1 can be constituted by covering twohalf parts, with interior being formed as a half of the movement slot 13respectively to form a tube after being assembled. From a plane of theaforementioned notch 121, a relative thickness of the movement slot 13with respect to the advancing belt 3 also needs to yield a space to holdsides of the advancing belt 3, but allowing the advancing belt 3 to movefreely. A central axis position of the wheel 2 is transfixedrespectively with a pivot hole 14, such that the wheel 2 is looselypivoted by the pivot hole 14, and an inner surface of the advancing belt3 is driven by using an outer circumference of the wheel 2, allowing theadvancing belt 3 to operate as shown in FIG. 2. At least one wheel 2 canbe linked to an external power source through a linking device 22,allowing the advancing belt 3 to acquire driving energy, wherein aninner surface of the advancing belt 3 is further formed as a row ofteeth 32, and an outer surface of the wheel 2 is formed as a ring ofteeth 21, so as to acquire synchronous gnawing without a slippage andwithout an error, by using the ring of teeth 21 to gnaw with the row ofteeth 32.

The linking device 22 of the wheel 2 is linked by introducing externalforce, that external force can be formed by a firing operation elementwhich is linked to a gun (not shown in the drawing), and utilizescounter force or any residual force that is linked through an actuationmechanism when firing a bullet with the gun, or can be controlled by anelectromechanical device (not shown in the drawing) through aprogrammable circuit to trigger a motor intermittently, allowing thelinking device 22 to be driven intermittently by the motor or manually.As technical details of various kinds of methods with which the linkingdevice 22 is linked to and driven by the external force are an ordinarymobile and electromechanical design, further description will not beprovided.

Referring to FIG. 4, the inlet 11 of the housing 1 provides for thepaint ball 10 to enter, and can be configured as a long-hole entrance110 to allow more paint balls to drop into, allowing the receiving slot30 to have a higher probability for receiving the paint ball 10. Inaddition, a center line of the long-hole entrance 110 is parallel to therunning line 300.

The advancing belt 3 is linked by the wheels 2, and after being linked,the toggle rods 31 will push out the paint balls 10 toward the outlet12. The outlet 12 is connected to the running line 300 inward, throughthe correction section 120, and the center line of the correctionsection 120 is coaxially extended with a center of the running line 300(the advancing side 33). The sliding sides 122 formed can form aslide-cut function to guide the paint balls 10 that the paint balls 10are pushed out linearly toward the outlet 12; whereas, the toggle rods31 which operate the paint balls 10 will cross over the notch 121 tocause an orderly link, wherein as the paint balls 10 that are carried atthe advancing side 33 are maintained independently by the receivingslots 30, their outer shapes can be kept intact and will not be squeezedduring the process, except that a first paint ball and a subsequentsecond paint ball that are close to the outlet 12 are squeezed withrespect to each other, other paint balls 10 that are running in therunning line 300 are spaced with one another by the toggle rods 31, soas to be maintained independently by the receiving slots 30. Therefore,the outer shapes of the paint balls 10 are kept intact during theadvancing process.

Referring to FIG. 5, the position of the outlet 11 of the housing 1 canbe linked outward with a loading cartridge 4 to expand a capacity, andthe outlet 12 of the housing 1 is assembled toward a bore of a gun (notshown in the drawing), which is basically perpendicular to the gun, andis assembled upward to an abdomen part, like a magazine of a real gunthat is assembled upward to a lower abdomen part of the gun. On theother hand, the inlet 11 of the housing 1 can be located in multipleorientations within 90 degrees of a horizontal X-axis on a verticalplane. Whether the inlet 11 is suspended down by 90 degrees or islocated within a horizontal included angle of 0 degree, the paint balls10 can all be fed in by gravity. Therefore, the housing 1 can be alsoassembled in multiple orientations to the gun, such that a design of afeeding position of the gun will not be restricted.

It is of course to be understood that the embodiments described hereinis merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and that awide variety of modifications thereto may be effected by persons skilledin the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventionas set forth in the following claims.

1. A paint ball arraying device, especially an arraying device which isused in a paint-ball gun to feed in spherical paint balls, keep thepaint balls intact and feed the paint balls in a bore successfully,comprising a flexible loop-shape advancing belt including a belt, togglerods spaced equally on the belt, and a receiving slot between every twotoggle rods; at least two wheels to support and drive the advancingbelt, and to arrange the advancing belt to form at least one uprightadvancing side; and a housing, interior of which is assembled with thewheels, with a movement slot being provided at a periphery of a runningline of the advancing side, the movement slot being provided with aninlet and an outlet of the housing, a cross section of the outlet beingperpendicular to an upright line of the advancing side and a center ofthe outlet being overlapped with the upright line.
 2. The paint ballarraying device according to claim 1, wherein a cross section of themovement slot is circular and a diameter of the movement slot is alittle larger than that of the paint ball used.
 3. The paint ballarraying device according to claim 1, wherein a cross section of theinlet is circular and a center of the inlet faces cross section of theinlet is circular and a center of the inlet faces directly toward therunning line of the movement slot.
 4. The paint ball arraying deviceaccording to claim 1, wherein a cross section of the inlet is in a shapeof a long hole, and a center line of the long hole is parallel to therunning line.
 5. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1,wherein exterior of the inlet is added with a paint ball loadingcartridge.
 6. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1,wherein an inner side of the advancing side is a row of teeth.
 7. Thepaint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein at least onewheel is an active wheel, exterior of which is a ring of teeth.
 8. Thepaint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein a center lineof the movement slot is overlapped with the running line of theadvancing belt.
 9. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1,wherein a center line of the movement slot is parallel to the runningline of the advancing belt.